Making a page static.

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  arthousevancouver · Member · May 9, 2016 at 5:05 am

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  Trying to make a page static (as a front page for my blog) but with the new administration format I can’t find how to do it!

  I believe it should be under Settings – then – Reading, but ‘reading’ isn’t coming up at all.

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2016 at 4:31 pm

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  Hi there,
  Dashboard → Settings → Reading
  The Reading page is here http://arthousevancouver.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  By default the front page of your blog is at the URL of the site and displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.

  However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  A static page (select below)
  Front page:
  Posts page:

  Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  Add the Blog page into it https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages